Clung Quotes

72 Clung quotes by 69 unique authors

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in… — David Wroblewski
All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you… — George Orwell
We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us. — Annie Barrows
I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear. Oh no! A hairy brown spider clung to… — Gail Carson Levine
The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy… — Emily Bronte
I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it, with the scent… — Maggie Stiefvater
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?… — George MacDonald
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with… — Bear Grylls
A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon,… — Stephen Crane
All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom… — Hermann Hesse
I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some… — Lisa Kleypas
She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do. — William Faulkner
She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance - shattered it. He had let the walls… — Cassandra Clare
Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me… — Francesca Lia Block
I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth. — Shannon Hale
Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city… — Walt Whitman
As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone. — Charles Portis
Denise clung to the feel of his hands as she pushed at her panic. It's okay. You're safe...and this has got to be the ugliest… — Jeaniene Frost
It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on. — Mary Balogh
I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night… — Isabel Allende
Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek… — Louisa May Alcott
The memories of the day played in his mind, but this time, his thoughts were of his daughter and the way she'd clung to Katie,… — Nicholas Sparks
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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